Those Years of Love and Hate with the Villain

Pre-publication: My Darling Brother Is Still My Brother (Pseudo-Incest), by Mo Yanran. Please add it to your collection~

Transmigrated into a zither player VS a reborn young lord

A clear-headed Imperial Preceptor who plays the pig to eat the tiger VS a scheming, ruthless minister plotting to usurp power

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After being born into this world, Shi Dai spent fifteen years living under an assumed name, then decades hidden away in a brothel. She thought she had concealed her identity as someone born into this world perfectly.

She never imagined that on the very first day of the plot, the villain would force her to marry him and bring her back to his residence, using both threats and persuasion to imprison her within its walls.

She had resisted and tested him. In the end, when he obtained an imperial decree granting their marriage, hoping to use the emperor's authority to bind her, she sheathed her claws and put on a mask of docility, playing the part of a devoted couple with him.

But what did it matter if they acted like a devoted couple?

On the day disaster struck the Feng family, when Feng Jun was at his most vulnerable and needed her most,

she still chose to flee from their wedding and leave him.

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When they met again, she had become the Imperial Preceptor of the Great Yin dynasty, The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above all others.

And he, having plotted to usurp the throne and carved a bloody path to power, had become emperor.

By day, she was a former court official deeply favored by the emperor, while he was a young new sovereign with the heart of a wolf and the ambition of a hawk. They clashed at every turn, neither willing to yield.

At night, he imprisoned her in the inner palace, winding a lock of her hair around his finger as he smiled obsessively. "Imperial Preceptor, you look so much like my late first wife."

"Since you refuse to join my faction, then join my harem instead."

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On their wedding night, all the palace maids and eunuchs saw the young emperor firmly turned away at Shi Dai's door.

Everyone was terrified, thinking Shi Dai would face the young emperor's fury and be beheaded in public. But instead, Feng Jun stayed with her every night and asked her again and again each day.

"I can let them go, but you have to stay."

"A Dai, this is what you promised me in our previous life."

Shi Dai only shook her head. "Feng Jun, don't keep deluding yourself. The person from your previous life wasn't me."

"It was you, Shi Dai. I've been reincarnated life after life, waiting for the real you to return."

--2026.6.7

Reader's Guide:

- The leads are each other's only partners, happy ending.

- The setting is fictional. Please don't scrutinize it for historical accuracy.

- A tragic romance with plenty of twists and turns.

- The story's premise reflects how the heroine sees the hero as having committed countless evils, when some of them are actually misunderstandings. The hero is deliberately putting himself into the situation. You can figure out for yourself which things are misunderstandings and which are real. I won't spoil too much here.

- I hope you enjoy reading~

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Pre-publication: My Darling Brother Is Still My Brother (Pseudo-Incest), by Mo Yanran. Blurb:

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The Shen family arranged a splendid marriage for Shen Lingyu,

to Su Qizheng, the newly appointed top scholar.

Shen Lingyu was of age and had long expected this day, so she calmly agreed.

But when the wedding date was actually set, she began to panic.

Her elder brother, who had been stationed on the border for years as the Great General Who Guards the North, had yet to return to the capital. How could she set a wedding date in such a hurry?

But when her brother finally returned to the capital, he only glanced at the frail scholar before asking her, "When are you breaking off the engagement?"

Shen Lingyu was baffled. "Brother?"

Shen Junze lowered his eyes, hiding the turbulent emotions within them. His tone remained gentle as he advised her, "Lingyu, this man is not a good match for you."

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Her parents' command and the matchmaker's word.

Shen Lingyu was in a quandary.

But she never expected Shen Junze to actually help her back out of the engagement unscathed.

Shen Lingyu was in a quandary again.

As the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, she would have to marry sooner or later.

She could avoid it for a while, but not forever.

Just as he had when she was a child, Shen Junze bent down to meet her gaze. The Great General Who Guards the North, once a dominant force on the battlefield, spoke with a tenderness and indulgence that seemed impossible.

"Yu Niang, you can do whatever you please. Your brother will take care of everything."

Shen Lingyu had trusted her elder brother most of all since childhood, so she took his words as an excuse to put marriage out of her mind.

But less than half a month after Shen Junze returned to the northern frontier, an imperial decree arrived at the Shen residence.

The emperor had arranged a marriage, and Shen Lingyu's wedding to Su Qizheng was now set in stone.

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What arrived before Shen Junze could return to the capital was disaster for the Shen family.

The emperor was attacked, and the Grand Tutor died protecting him. The whole nation mourned.

The Grand Tutor's wife took to her bed, gravely ill. Before she died, she told Shen Lingyu the truth about her elder brother's origins.

Shen Junze was not of the Shen family's blood. He was a blood relative of the emperor, the prince rumored to have died in infancy, the son of the late empress.

Her parents were both dead, and even the brother who had treated her best was not related to her by blood.

Suffering through every kind of pain, Shen Lingyu decided to keep the secret and secretly began searching for her own elder brother, who had been lost somewhere in the world, without telling Shen Junze.

But on her wedding day, the person who stepped into her bridal chamber wearing red wedding robes and lifted her veil was not Su Qizheng. It was Shen Junze.

"First you did everything you could to stop your legitimate younger sister from marrying, then you ended her excellent match. Now the emperor has arranged the marriage and there's no refusing it. What exactly do you intend, Brother?"

"Naturally, I'm asking for the chance to be a devoted husband to my younger sister."

"Our parents are gone. Taking care of my younger sister is only right and proper."

"But why won't Yu Niang listen?"

Shen Junze abandoned the gentle propriety he had shown before and openly revealed the secret she had hidden for months.

"Su Qizheng isn't some husband for a Shen woman. He's the elder brother you've spent months searching for, your last blood relative in this world."

"How could it be him!"

Ignoring Shen Lingyu's shock, Shen Junze leaned over her, twining a lock of her long, dark hair around his fingers as he smiled brightly.

"I've been her brother for all these years. From now on, for the rest of this life, I should be the one to be Yu Niang's husband."

Theme: Prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain